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Senator Cotton - March 1st, Hour 3
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You know, we've been talking a lot today about media corruption, how wrong they are, and on so many big stories.
All these people that were so wrong for years and years about Donald Trump, every issue pretty much involving Donald Trump, but especially the Russia collusion lie.
You know, we learned last week that masks were totally, completely ineffective in spite of what the government was telling us.
We have the whole Wuhan lab controversy.
Yeah, we knew they studied coronaviruses and we knew that that lab was involved in gain function research, but everybody tried to tell us it was anything but the Wuhan Virology Lab.
And if you dared to say that, which we had no problem asking the questions, you were labeled a conspiracy theorist.
You know, I mean, every single major issue that comes up, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSDNC, CNN fake news, the Washington Post, New York Times, they're wrong.
You know, when the lab leak story broke, you know, once we started to put together the origins of COVID, you know, there were people brave enough to tell us the likely source of this.
One of them was Senator Tom Cotton of the great state of Arkansas.
And when he did tell us about that Wuhan lab, and remember, NIH money funneled through the EcoHealth Alliance.
Your tax dollars actually went to that Wuhan Virology Lab, meaning we helped pay for it in some capacity.
You know, they attacked, you know, Senator Cotton for suggesting that what we now know to be true as a conspiracy theory.
Just here as a reminder.
Senator Tom Cotton actually closed his office this morning calling it the Wuhan virus as he did so.
And he has, of course, been out in public talking about conspiracy theories, frankly, as to where the virus came from.
Tom Cotton a couple of days ago spouting a conspiracy theory that the Chinese made this virus up at the lab and where you go.
just a whiff of credibility there on television and on social media to a conspiracy theory going around that the coronavirus originated and was perhaps man-made inside a lab in China.
Okay, Senator Tom Cotton joins us.
Now, have you got any calls, any apologies, Senator?
Sean, it's good to be on with you.
I think they must not have my phone number or I can't get through to my voicemail because I've not gotten any calls from all those folks at CNN and MSNBC and New York Times and Washington Post.
You know, Sean, it's bad enough that in the winter of 2020, as this virus was reaching our shores, I pointed out just the common sense observation that most Arkansans would have that this virus almost certainly came from the lab right up the street where they researched that-based coronaviruses and which was known to have sloppy safety practices.
Or at a minimum, we should be asking the question that they accuse me and you and people like us of engaging in conspiracy theorizing or being racist or nativist or xenophobic.
all bad enough but now three years later when even the biden administration is beginning to uh acknowledge that well not not everybody I noticed they have Jake Sullivan, they have Karine Jean-Pierre and one other spokesperson still saying they're not sure, which is total BS.
So I think for a lot of these politicians, what they're doing is not just covering for themselves rhetorically, because they repeated the same lines like Joe Biden did, but they also worry about covering up the tracks of what left-wing bureaucrats like Tony Fauchy did to fund some of the research at the Wuhan labs.
And they don't want that to be exposed, especially now that the Republican House is looking into it.
But then you get into the media.
I think a lot of them are just so stubborn and so ideological and so dedicated to the party lying that their view is like if Tom Cotton or Sean Hannity or Donald Trump says it, then it must be wrong.
We have to fight back against it.
Whatever it is, they have no interest in getting to the truth.
They certainly have no interest in holding Chinese communists accountable for all the pain and hardship they inflicted on the American people in the civilized world.
Yeah, listen, we all live through the same thing.
If you're a conservative, you're just fair game.
I mean, it's amazing, you know, people lying about me, you know, saying that I advocated things that I never advocated, never even talked about.
And they just make it up out of whole cloth and, you know, just to slam and slander.
You know, so at the end of the day, this is important because we're watching China.
We see their territorial ambitions on display as they continue to fly their fighter jets over Taiwan.
I don't think Joe Biden will lift a finger to help Taiwan if that, quote, moment of reunification, as China calls it, occurs.
We see what they're doing with intellectual property theft.
We see their unfair trade practices.
We now, for some reason, and maybe you can explain this to me, Senator, why is our country allowing China and Chinese nationals to buy up thousands and thousands of acres of farmland and ranch land, often near military installations?
And of course, then we have the little old balloon incident that Joe Biden allowed to have happen for eight straight days.
Well, so Sean, all these things are of a piece together.
They all reflect Joe Biden's desire to bend over backwards, script the Chinese communists, to apologize for the behavior and excuse it, sometimes even act as their lawyer.
You mentioned the Chinese balloon.
You had administration officials hypothesizing that, oh, maybe it got blown off course by a strong wind.
Well, that must have been what heck of a wind that blowed from Guam all the way to Alaska.
It's the same reason that they won't come out and say the Chinese communists almost certainly caused this pandemic by allowing viruses to leak from that laboratory using shoddy laboratory practices and extremely dangerous research.
They will continue to bend over backwards to appease and coddle Chinese communists, kowtowing to them.
When we should be doing some of the things you laid out, like banning Chinese nationals from buying our farmland, banning them?
No, I think we should even go further.
I think anybody from China that bought any of our land, I think it's a national security threat, and I think it's a perfect case for eminent domain.
Now, they can either pay them back or that could be part of the compensation for unleashing COVID on the United States and the rest of the world.
And I think we should just take our land back and say, no, thank you.
Go back to China.
And that's doubly true when it's next to sensitive military sites.
You know, you recently, thankfully, saw the local government in Grand Forks, North Dakota, reject an application by Chinese-affiliated companies to build a major agricultural facility, which just happened to provide line-of-sight access in the Air Force base.
By the way, do you think any American could ever buy farmland, ranch land, or land near Chinese military installations in China?
Do you think that would ever be allowed?
Well, the question answers itself.
And what most Americans are going to seek with China, like any country, is basic reciprocity.
If China won't let us do it there, why would we let them do it here?
That's a great question.
Let me switch topics on you here for a second.
So in 2020, the New York Times published your op-ed calling for the United States to put an end to the riots in the summer of 2020.
Now, we had 574 official riots.
We had thousands of injured police officers.
We had billions of dollars in property damage.
And we had dozens of dead Americans.
That was the result of the summer of 2020.
So you called for the United States in your op-ed in the New York Times for this country to put an end to the violent riots.
They were not peaceful protests.
They were violent riots.
But now there's a new book that came out, and apparently you really stirred things up among the snowflakes of the New York Times and woke New York Times employees.
Apparently, they were furious that they even printed your letter.
One staffer accused his colleagues of acting like a bloodthirsty mob, demanding someone be fired for green lighting your op-ed.
Another staffer openly weeping and lamenting that none of his friends would talk to him or anything because he worked for a company that published something written by a sitting Republican senator.
And by the way, around the same time, you were getting bashed because you were telling the truth about COVID.
I mean, I'm sitting here in shock.
I mean, are people that sensitive, hypersensitive?
Are they that woke that they can't even read an alternative viewpoint?
Which, by the way, you were making perfect sense because we didn't lift a finger to stop those riots.
Yeah.
So, Sean, that was only a couple months after the controversy over my common stance assertion, the lab was the most likely source for this virus.
And what I was saying in that op-ed was supported by a sizable majority of Americans.
I said that if local police cannot restore order, or in some cities, Sean, if they're not allowed to restore order by Democratic politicians, then President Trump should use the Insurrection Act to restore order and that the American people had a right to expect that.
And again, supported by a majority of the American people, but all of these liberals at places like the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC live in such a bubble, so insulated from normal Americans who hold normal traditional viewpoints that they think that literally any kind of words that cause them to disagree is violence.
That's why they kept saying, this op-ed puts my life at risk.
These words are violence.
And it's because they've been raised in this bubble in their precious elite schools and colleges to think that they are the only ones who have a proper viewpoint.
They've not been exposed to conservatives like you and me or just to normal Americans who want to go about living their life.
And therefore, they react hysterically and break down when they have to confront arguments that are supported by a majority of the American people.
Then they spent endless and endless and endless amounts of time, hours and hours, prime time television, going through the January 6th riot, which, by the way, on this radio show, just so you know, I was condemning it in real time.
I don't support violence of any kind.
I don't support any of these riots.
And we have to protect our elected officials and we have to protect our institutions.
Here's the problem.
They were so fixated on their predetermined conclusion that they were going to bash Trump.
We're now learning things like the Capitol Police Chief requesting numerous times that the guard be called up.
We're now learning that there was intelligence in the weeks leading up to January 6th that should have alerted everybody for the need for proper security that day.
We never got Nancy Pelosi, the sergeant-at-arms, the Capitol Police Chief, Muriel Bowser.
They didn't look over their text messages, their emails, their phone records.
They never asked Muriel Bowser why she just out of nowhere rejected the use of the guard in her district, which she had the power to do.
Nobody ever got deep into what intelligence they had and what threats they knew about that they didn't take seriously.
That to me would be a failure of intelligence gathering or a failure to act on good intelligence.
Yeah, sure.
So I want to commend Speaker McCarthy for his commitment to tell the full story about what happened that day and how it happened, because I don't think the House Democrat show trials over the last two years even scratched the surface of a lot of the things you just touched.
I also want to point out that it's just another example of the one-sided enforcement of the law.
We recently had Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, in front of one of my committees.
And I pointed out that we had left-wing protesters in front of justices' homes last summer, and not a single one has been arrested and charged with an offense.
And these are not criminal masterminds.
I mean, they advertise these protests in advance, which are plainly a violation of federal law.
They posted videos and pictures of themselves on their social media accounts.
It would take an agent today, probably just a couple hours, to identify some of them and go arrest them and charge them with this offense.
Yet not a single arrest and charges happen because Merritt Garland is sympathetic to those protesters in favor of abortion, whereas he spent millions, millions of man hours tracing down not just the violent criminals who broke into the Capitol on January 6th, but also the grandmas who were just walking around.
Well, you know what the worst part of this is, Senator?
You know, we could have learned, you know, what we should do to protect our Capitol, the people's house.
We should have learned what measures need to be implemented to protect every elected official.
I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican.
I mean, you need protection.
You know, I would have thought that maybe they do to the Capitol what they do at the White House, create a perimeter, put those cement blocks so people can't drive a car through it, and then put up a wrought iron fence like they have in front of the White House, and that would keep people out as well.
And then put more security on the outside at the ready in case, God forbid, a group of people try to breach the Capitol ever again.
Yeah, and Sean, you make a lot of important points about questions that need to be asked.
We all saw on the night of January 6th how quickly the no-scale anti-riot temporary fencing was erected around the Capitol.
Obviously, it could have been erected on January 5th, the morning of January 6th, if all of the different law enforcement agencies involved, the intelligence agencies involved, had been communicating properly and taking the threat as seriously as some seem to have taken it.
So these are all questions that, like I said, I commend Speaker McCarthy for getting to the bottom two.
All right, quick break more with Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas on the other side.
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That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Mayfook from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
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All right, we continue with Senator Tom Cotton from the great state of Arkansas.
You were right in the summer of 2020.
I mean, Donald Trump, I remember, offered the National Guard repeatedly to cities like Portland and others, and they kept rejecting it.
I don't know if you remember, I did an interview with Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr.
He lost his son, his namesake, in the Chop Chaz Summer of Love spaghetti potluck dinner zone.
And, you know, his life, he did not need to die, but they let these lunatics take over entire city blocks, including a police precinct.
Yeah, and they did so again, just like Mayor Garland has refused to charge anyone who protested in a Supreme Court justice home because they sympathized with that can never be the basis for law enforcement.
I think that we should arrest and prosecute people who violated the law on January 6th.
I think we should arrest and prosecute people who violated the law outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
You and I agree.
Senator Tom Cotton, great state of Arkansas, thank you, sir, for being with us.
We appreciate it.
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All right, so we had Christopher Wray on with Brett Baer on Fox last night, and then we had the hearings earlier today with Merrick Garland, both of which made complete fools out of themselves.
But I'm angry at a lot of what Christopher Wray was saying.
I was angry at his deflections.
I was angry about some of his answers, just like I was with Merrick Garland.
You know, for example, here's Christopher Wray deflecting when asked about the FBI having a dual system of justice, and we have highlighted this over and over and over again.
And that would include raiding Mar-a-Lago, but no raid on the Penn Biden Center, no raid on Joe Biden's homes, no raid on the University of Delaware.
And yet, Joe Biden ends up, just like Hillary Clinton, with more top-secret classified information than Donald Trump.
Listen: The documents investigation for former President Trump and the raid that happens in Mar-a-Lago, that show of force in that way, as opposed to the documents investigation for President Biden and how that went down.
You find out about those documents before the November election.
The FBI then does the search of the House after that, but does not say anything prior to the midterm election.
So, we have a long history of handling investigations into the mishandling of classified information.
And our standard for approaching those investigations is the same, no matter who it is.
Our basic approach is the same.
Here's what I'm talking about: the dual system.
You know, there's that for a pro-life activist, but not that for a Black Lives Matter protester who maybe torches a federal building over the summer.
So, that disparity, that dichotomy, is what sticks in people's mind.
I understand that people have their opinions.
All I can tell you is that we have one standard.
Oh, okay.
I understand people have their opinions, but we have one standard.
No, they don't have one standard.
There's one for the Clintons, there's one for the Bidens, and then there's a whole other standard if you're a part of the Trump family or a conservative.
It's that simple, and it's been on display now for a long period of time.
Just like the FBI now, in the last two presidential elections, put their thumb on the scale in favor of the Democratic presidential candidate.
And that started under Comey in 2016 and the dirty Russian dossier, not holding Hillary accountable for top secret classified information on her servers, letting her get away with destroying 33,000 emails using something we had never heard of before called Bleach Pit.
That would include using the dirty dossier signed by James Comey to spy on a presidential candidate and later a president.
And that would include the FBI having in 2020, and well, they actually had in December of 2019, Hunter Biden's laptop.
We still don't have any arrests regarding Hunter Biden.
That raises the question of why not that they can't answer.
Anyway, joining us now to comment on this and so much more, we have Nicole Parker is with us, former special agent, FBI special agent.
She left the agency because it's been politicized.
Nicole, welcome to the program.
Thank you for being with us.
Thank you.
All right.
Let's first of all, why did you leave the FBI?
How many years were you there?
Tell us some of the big cases you worked on and tell us why you left.
Sure.
So I was at the FBI for about 12 and a half years.
I was a witness to the 9-11 terrorist attacks in New York City.
And, you know, it made me.
And by the way, you were making a lot of money.
You had a really good job on Wall Street and you were doing very well for yourself.
Yeah, I mean, I had worked at Merrill Lynch.
I was working at a hedge fund at the time that I left and applied to the FBI.
But, you know, I felt that I had a greater purpose and I wanted to give back and serve this country.
I was not driven by money, obviously, to come to the FBI.
I genuinely love America and I wanted to serve the people.
And after seeing the heroes of 9-11, I wanted to give back.
And that is what motivated me.
It was a very pure intention.
And I walked away from a lucrative career to serve the people of the United States of America.
I get to the FBI.
It was an amazing experience.
By the way, when you got there, how many applications did they have the year that you applied?
So the year that I applied, according to the Wall Street Journal, there were approximately 45,000 applicants, and there were 900 selected for the special agent positions.
And I was one of them.
And so, you know, I was accepted.
I got an academy date class, went to Quantico August 1st of 2010, and I went through the academy, which was quite grueling.
And I graduated, had my gun, my badge, my credentials, and I was assigned to serve in the Miami division of the FBI.
And you worked on a number of high-profile cases, didn't you?
You know, I did.
I had the opportunity to serve our country on cases such as the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.
I worked the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.
I worked the Caesar Syak pipe bomb case where an individual was sending pipe bombs to high-level Democrats.
I worked crimes on the high seas, homicides, extortions, murder for hires, things of that sort.
And I really felt like I was making a strong impact.
And it was an incredible experience.
It was difficult.
It was demanding, but it was fulfilling because I really believed that I was helping Americans and protecting them from violent criminals.
So you showed great courage and great valor and all the right intentions.
You were part of a chosen few that actually got the honor to work there.
What was the difference when you first joined the FBI and when you decided to leave?
And that brings up the question, why did you decide to leave after, what, 12 years?
Yeah, close to 13.
So, you know, I was going along doing my work.
I started doing white-collar crime initially.
Then I had transferred over to violent crime.
It was like a family on my squad.
I mean, I worked with some amazing individuals, and we were putting bad people behind bars.
And, you know, to stay focused on my work.
And I would say around 2016, things definitely shifted.
And I'll never forget the date, none of us will.
It was July 5th of 2016 when then Director Jim Comey went on national television and talked about the investigation in an election.
The famous words were no prosecutor would ever prosecute, even though he outlined all the top secret classified information that he found on Hillary Clinton's servers and basically ignored the deletion of 33,000 emails and the destruction of devices with hammers and the removal of SIM cards.
Right.
You put it very eloquently there.
But yeah, it was that day we never will forget.
We were all glued to the television screens in the office seeing what was going to happen.
He said no reasonable prosecutor would likely ever prosecute this case.
We were all very surprised because we are trained that in the FBI, we gather evidence and we present it to the U.S. Attorney's Office and they make prosecutorial decisions.
The FBI does not make prosecutorial decisions.
The Department of Justice does.
So it was almost like a decision was being made by the FBI director on behalf of DOJ, which seemed a little bit, you know, we were a little surprised by this.
But you know what?
It didn't directly impact me.
I was in Miami.
I was working my cases.
I was working, you know, my murder for hire cases and extortion cases and sexual assault cases.
So I kept my head low, stayed off the radar, and we just kept doing our work.
But Sean, it was, as the years progressed, the time progressed, then it, you know, became the Russia collusion matter and then one thing after another.
And the politicization just became deafening when you couldn't ignore it anymore and just focus on the violent crime because it was almost like the focal point of the FBI's mission, which is not why I joined the FBI.
I didn't leave Wall Street to come into a politically charged environment.
I literally came to save Americans.
So it was very frustrating for many of us.
And, you know, as the years progressed, it progressively, we kept seeing more and more and more.
And the types of focus and the emails that we were receiving.
And, you know, like I said, I thought that what I was doing was the most important, you know, human trafficking, things of that sort.
But the focus of the FBI just seemed to shift dramatically.
And it really wasn't what I had signed up for.
And so I thought, you know what?
People started speaking up.
They voiced their concerns.
And, you know, they would report to their supervisor, but it didn't go anywhere because your supervisor is just the next level above you.
Between myself and like the FBI director, we're talking multiple, multiple layers.
I could never call the FBI director and express to him my concerns.
Okay.
They have these employee surveys, but we all knew they say that they were anonymous, but we all knew that they probably weren't anonymous.
And the thing that you know with the FBI is that if you speak up, you're potentially putting a target on your back, even if you're standing up for what is right.
You know, you just don't.
Would you say, would you characterize the feelings you had were shared by a majority of your fellow FBI agents?
You know, I can't put a number on it, but I would say a very, very large percentage of the FBI employees that I worked with and that I knew felt similarly.
And, you know, it's kind of a rank and file.
I've kind of expressed it as two FBIs, right?
We have like the rank and file agents, and then we have the upper level management VC type agents or leadership.
And so, you know, we're the rank and file folks, and we're just trying to get in there, do the job, save Americans.
But it seemed like, and we kind of refer to that as like an FBI one, right?
FBI two, and they're really amazing agents and people doing really good work in the FBI.
Like I've mentioned before on your program, my very dearest friend, Special Agent Laura Schwarzenberger, was killed in the line of duty executing a search warrant protecting children from child pornography on February 2nd, 2021, as well as another special agent, Daniel Alpin.
These are heroes.
Four other agents were injured.
They are putting their lives on the line, doing the heavy lifting.
And that is what I wanted the focus of the FBI to be.
Let me ask you this.
Important thing.
Did you happen to see Christopher Ray in his interview with Brett Baer last night?
I did.
I watched it very intently because I want to know what is happening at the FBI because I have been trying to be a voice for good.
And I wonder if anyone is listening now that I'm on the outside.
What did you think of his answers?
Because I didn't like any of them.
Well, I've got to tell you, my initial reaction was, I appreciate at least he's going on an interview with Brett Bayer on Fox, right?
Because their posture is a lot of times, there's nothing to see here.
Everything is great.
I think internally they have to know that everything is not great.
He talked about the recruiting efforts and, oh, the recruiting numbers are outstanding.
But I can tell you, Sean, people are leaving at the FBI in numbers that I had never seen.
It was unheard of for someone to leave before they received their pension.
Someone like myself, that would have never happened when I first joined the FBI.
But I can tell you, I knew someone that left in my division the week before I did, and a Quantico classmate of mine left two weeks after I did, all before their pension.
And also, not only do you have to look at the recruiting efforts, but they've dropped the standards for recruiting, who they're bringing in, the actual criteria.
I can tell you, the number of work, years of work experience you have to have, that's dropped.
So do you think the FBI has gone woke?
Are they now a political operation?
I think that the politicization and looking into people that hold certain political persuasions is one aspect of it for sure.
But then on the other side, I view it as, I call it social movements, right?
I didn't come to the FBI to talk about being a social justice warrior and my gender.
I hope that I got into the FBI, not because I'm a female, because I'm a highly qualified patriotic American who wanted to serve my country.
I don't think it should matter the gender, but I do the other issues kept coming in, and it seemed like social issues were drowning out the work as well.
So I kind of think the social issues and the political issues combined, I hardly recognized.
It did not appear to be the organization I had joined.
I hope everybody hears you.
And this is why I always made a distinction between the rank and file and the people on the seventh floor in the FBI headquarters in D.C. Because there are these great people that sacrifice a lot like you did to serve their country.
And you did so with great honor, courage, valor, and dignity.
And you're going to be the first now of what will be dozens of former FBI agents, whistleblowers that are now coming forward, and we'll be hearing from them.
And I have a funny feeling they're going to have the same passion and same stories that you do.
But Nicole Parker, as always, thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Thank you so much, Sean.
I greatly appreciate it.
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Hannity on the Fox News channel, Janine Pirro, Judge Denin, Kellyanne Conway.
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